Executive comms: @ILFarmBureau. Speeches: @ILFBPres. Native plant aficionado & backyard veggie grower. Michigan born, Midwest raised
Central Illinois
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.@ILFarmBureau President Brian Duncan @ILFBPres kicks off the 2024 Agribusiness Roundtable.
He notes how IL agriculture is at the intersection of private/public sustainability programs & pledges, but policies behind these need to be workable for farmers.
.@ILFarmBureau President Brian Duncan @ILFBPres moderating a fireside chat w/@FarmBureau Comms VP Terri Moore @TeuberMoore about connect. btwn. farmers & supply chain
as part of 2024 Agribusiness Roundtable.
Moore says ag is in a "period of engagement" around sustain. issues.
"While the conservation efforts of individual farmers are important, we cannot overlook the value of moving the needle through a collaborative approach."
-@ILFarmBureau Vice President Evan Hultine in this week's @FarmWeekNow calling for add'l conservation program incentives.
.@ILFarmBureau Vice President Evan Hultine is overseeing this meeting, his first as chair of the IFB Resolutions Committee. #IFBinAction
Grassroots at work. @ILFarmBureau Resolutions Committee meets to consider dozens of policy submittals in Champaign.
Happy to make my @FarmWeekNow Perspectives Page debut with this op-ed on the benefits of using conservation practices in the veggie garden:
. @TimothyMEggert had his first lesson in conservation at age five. Now, he applies many of these practices to his backyard garden and says you should too! bit.ly/3yi4YSS
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.@ILFarmBureau President Brian Duncan @ILFBPres kicks off the 2024 CFB Presidents Conference, explaining to 84 CFB prez in attendance that FB leadership & policy are vital to move forward issues like trade, biofuels & the farm bill.
.@ILFarmBureau President Brian Duncan @ILFBPres welcomes @FarmBureau President @ZippyDuvall to the stage at the 2024 CFB President's Conference.
Duvall tells CFB presidents: "Without you, nothing gets done."
.@ILFarmBureau President Brian Duncan @ILFBPres joins @ritafrazer for a monthly update, sharing news on severe weather & recent meetings in DC plus a preview of IFB's policy develop. process later this month.
Listen here: tinyurl.com/3nw7x2ff
.@ILFarmBureau President Brian Duncan @ILFBPres writes in @FarmWeekNow that w/o a viable #SAF market, corn farmers risk losing out on $2 billion/yr thru 2050.
"Sound, reasonable policies are needed to ensure that significant changes and cost investments are worthwhile."
Happy #PollinatorWeek ! from my front walk garden & certified @ILextension Pollinator Pocket filled w/Illinois native plants.
Best part about these #ilwx high winds is watching the infinite waves they push through stands of wheat & hay. 💨🌾🍃
Kath's passing is a huge loss to local/public service journalism in NW Illinois.
A brilliant storyteller, Kath taught me the nuances of the public safety beat in rural, rust belt communities. Her biggest lesson: Write it accurate before you write it pretty.
Kathleen Schulz loved covering the Sauk Valley, concentrating on courts and crime. One lawyer she covered called her "kind and compassionate, but tenacious and relentless." shawlocal.com/ogle-county-ne…
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County Farm Bureau managers now hearing from @ILFarmBureau Vice President Evan Hultine @e_hultine. He says his CFB manager was pivotal in giving him the confidence & trust to lead & serve members when he was Bureau CFB president. #2024CFBManagersConference
.@ILFBPres Brian Duncan this morning addressing @ILFarmBureau county Farm Bureau managers. He explains that CFB managers are essential to IFB & the relationship btwn manager & president is vital to a CFB's success. #2024CFBManagersConference
.@ILFarmBureau former president Richard Guebert Jr. accepts the @officialNAMA 2024 Ag Association Leader of the Year award.
Guebert, a grain farmer from Randolph County, retired from IFB in late 2023 after serving 10 years as prez & 10 years as VP.
.@FarmWeekNow's mission hasn't wavered in the last 50 years: "To inform, create awareness, share ideas and bolster the collective voice of @ILFarmBureau members."
There’s a pretty cool display at Illinois Farm Bureau headquarters in Bloomington celebrating a half-century of #FarmWeek. Lot of history here serving members
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H/T to Winnebago County dairyman & @ILFarmBureau District 2 director @BrentPollard for sharing in this @ReutersAg story the safety & cleaning procedures he & other dairy farmers are following to protect their herds from #HPAI spread:
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"This obviously isn't cheap, but can you put a price on history? We just knew it was the right thing to do."
Work to restore a 1912-era round barn, once used for housing & milking cows on a Sangamon County family farm, is nearing completion.
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Check your local @PBS station on 4/15 to see blooms from this Madison County lavender farm: farmweeknow.com/general/pbs-…
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Montgomery County farmer filling a semi-trailer w/donated cattle & fencing supplies for Texas livestock producers impacted by recent wildfires:
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